“My brother’s face weighed more than 15 kilograms. He has carried this tumour for more than 30 years. It’s unimaginable.”
Huang Weicai, whose brother Huang Chuncai is recovering after Chinese surgeons removed the 57-centimetre-long tumour from his head on 24 July (Reuters, 24 July)
“It’s almost equivalent to a large Russian roulette game.”
Skip Snow, a biologist in the Everglades National Park, Florida, on the problems posed by releasing exotic pets into the wild. A growing population of Burmese pythons is the latest threat to native Everglade species (The New York Times, 24 July)
“For every one person that you put in therapy, six get infected.…
